Automating COVID-19 epidemiological situation reports based on multiple data sources, the Netherlands, 2020 to 2023.

Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands developed a pipeline of scripts to automate and streamline the production of epidemiological situation reports (epi‑sitrep). The pipeline was developed for the Automation of Data Import, Summarization, and Communication (hereafter called the A-DISC pipeline).

Objective: This paper describes the A-DISC pipeline and provides a customizable scripts template that may be useful for other countries wanting to automate their infectious disease surveillance processes.

Immunogenicity, duration of protection, effectiveness and safety of rubella containing vaccines: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis.

Background: Rubella containing vaccines (RCV) prevent rubella virus infection and subsequent congenital rubella syndrome (CRS). To update the evidence on immunogenicity, duration of protection, effectiveness and safety of RCV, we conducted a systematic literature review.

Methods: We searched EMBASE and SCOPUS, using keywords for rubella vaccine in combination with immunogenicity (seroconversion and seropositivity), duration of protection, efficacy/effectiveness, and safety.

Occupation- and age-associated risk of SARS-CoV-2 test positivity, the Netherlands, June to October 2020.

High coronavirus incidence has prompted the Netherlands to implement a second lockdown. To elucidate the epidemic's development preceding this second wave, we analysed weekly test positivity in public test locations by population subgroup between 1 June and 17 October 2020. Hospitality and public transport workers, driving instructors, hairdressers and aestheticians had higher test positivity compared with a reference group of individuals without a close-contact occupation.

MenACWY vaccination campaign for adolescents in the Netherlands: Uptake and its determinants.

Background: Between 2015 and 2018 the incidence of meningococcal disease serogroup W increased tenfold in the Netherlands with the highest case fatality among adolescents and young adults. In 2018-2019 a national mass vaccination campaign, with recall after non-attendance, was implemented targeting 14-18-years old adolescents. This study estimated the MenACWY-vaccine uptake and investigated its determinants.